They found only the cracks and fissures expected of ordinary limestone formations. In 1977, he joined Stanford Research Institute scientists using state-of-the-art remote-sensing equipment to analyze the bedrock under the Sphinx. Lehner married an Egyptian woman and spent the ensuing years plying his drafting skills to win work mapping archaeological sites all over Egypt. “There were thousands of tombs of real people, statues of real people with real names, and none of them figured in the Cayce stories,” he says.

Even as he grew skeptical about a lost hall of records, the site’s strange history exerted its pull. Still, he returned, finishing his undergraduate education at the American University of Cairo with support from Cayce’s foundation. “It was hot and dusty and not very majestic,” he remembers. When the foundation sponsored a group tour of the Giza plateau-the site of the Sphinx and the pyramids on the western outskirts of Cairo-Lehner tagged along.

In 1971, Lehner, a bored sophomore at the University of North Dakota, wasn’t planning to search for lost civilizations, but he was “looking for something, a meaningful involvement.” He dropped out of school, began hitchhiking and ended up in Virginia Beach, where he sought out Cayce’s son, Hugh Lynn, the head of a holistic medicine and paranormal research foundation his father had started. During one of his trances, Cayce, who died in 1945, saw that refugees from the lost city of Atlantis buried their secrets in a hall of records under the Sphinx and that the hall would be discovered before the end of the 20th century. Inside Ancient Egypt offers clues to ancient Egyptians’ lives on Earth-and to everything we may have in common with them.When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. Filled with goods and people, the marketplace offers experiential learning through the everyday activities that occurred in this bustling cultural center. The exhibition also features a recreation of an ancient marketplace reconstructed from market scenes depicted on tomb walls. The burial chamber, which dates to 2400 BC, houses one of the largest collections of mummies in the United States: 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies. Inside Ancient Egypt is an up-close look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians-as well as how they thought about death.Įnter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian tomb, that houses two authentic chamber rooms from the burial site of 5th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Unis’s son Unis-Ankh. Anchor: #unwrap-the-mysteries-of-this-civilization-with-mummies-and-more Unwrap the mysteries of this civilization with mummies and more.

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